ANTH 101- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 62 pages long!)

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Chapter 8: food production and the rise of states: epipaleolithic: time period during which food production first developed in the. Near east: mesolithic: the archaeological period in the old world beginning about 12000. Archaeological data indicate that various forms of domestication of plants and animals arose independently in six separate locales worldwide, with the earliest known developments taking place in. India and the middle east around 10,000 bp: sedentarism: settled life, agriculture: the practice of raising domesticated crops, preagricultural developments, the middle east. Shift from big game to broad spectrum. Israel and jordan: social complexity, wild grain, most of the year at the site, mesoamerica. Archaic people of highland mesoamerica: archaic: time period in the new world during which food production first developed, macroband camp 15 to 30 residents, micoband camp 2 to 5 residents, other areas. Fishing: why did broad spectrum collecting develop. Population growth: broad spectrum collecting and sedentarism. Europe, middle east, africa, peru: associated with sedentarism.